History
and Epistemology for Mathematics Education
Storia
ed Epistemologia per la Didattica della Matematica
Giorgio T. BAGNI Department
of Mathematics University
of Roma “La Sapienza” Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma
(Italy) Phone:
(+39) 06 49913216. Fax: (+39) 06 44701007 e-mail: bagni@mat.uniroma1.it Private address: Via Venanzio Fortunato 28, I-31100
Treviso (Italy) Phone and fax: (+)39 0422 432763 e-mail: gtbagni@tin.it |
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¨ Giorgio Tomaso Bagni (1958,
Milano, Italy): degree in Mathematics, University of Padova (Italy);
post-graduate courses: in Numerical Analysis (University of Calabria, Rende,
Italy) and in Computer Science (IBM Novedrate, Milano). Since 2000 he is
Research Fellow (Ricercatore Universitario) in Complemetary Mathematics
(Mat-04), Department of Mathematics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”.
¨ Teaching position
(university):
1994-95 Teaching Professor of
History of Mathematics in the postgraduate course in Didactics of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna (Italy).
1995-96 Teaching contract
Professor of History of Mathematics for Didactics of Mathematics, Department of
Mathematics, University of Bologna.
1997-98 Teaching Professor of History
of Mathematics in the postgraduate course in Didactics of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna.
Teaching Professor
of History of Mathematics in the postgraduate course in Didactics of
Mathematics, University of Querètaro (Mexico).
Teaching Assistant
of Didactics of Mathematics in the postgraduate course in Didactics of
Mathematics, University of Querètaro.
1998-99 Teaching contract
Professor of History of Mathematics for Didactics of Mathematics, Department of
Mathematics, University of Bologna.
1999-00 Teaching Professor of
History and Epistemology of Mathematics in the postgraduate School for
Perspective Teachers SSIS, University of Udine (Italy).
Teaching Professor
of History of Mathematics in the postgraduate course in Didactics of
Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna.
2000-01 Teaching Assistant of
“Istituzioni di Matematica” (degree in Biology), University of Roma “La
Sapienza”.
2001-02 Teaching Professor of
Mathematical Logic (degree in Computer Science), University of Roma “La
Sapienza”.
Teaching Assistant
of Calculus and Biostatistics (degree in Biology), University of Roma “La
Sapienza”.
Teaching Professor of History of Mathematics workshop in the postgraduate School for Perspective Teachers SSIS, University of Roma “La Sapienza”.
Teaching Professor
in Introductory courses of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Roma
“La Sapienza”.
2002-03 Teaching Professor of
Mathematical Logic (degree in Computer Science), University of Roma “La
Sapienza”.
Teaching Assistant
of Calculus and Biostatistics (degree in Biology), University of Roma “La
Sapienza”.
Teaching Professor
of History of Mathematics workshop in the postgraduate School for Perspective
Teachers SSIS, University of Roma “La Sapienza”.
Teaching Professor
in Introductory courses of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Roma
“La Sapienza”.
¨ Since 1999 to 2002 he was
President of the Academy “Ateneo di Treviso” (Treviso, Italy), legally
recognized by Italian Department of Culture (he is Full Member of the Academy
since 1996). Since 2001 he is editor at “Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana G.
Treccani” for the History of Sciences. Since 1990 to 2000 he was member
of the “Nucleo di Ricerca in Didattica della Matematica”, Department of
Mathematics, University of Bologna. Since 1986 to 2000 he was teacher of
Mathematics and Physics at Liceo Scientifico (High School) of Treviso; he is
legally qualified as Mathematics and Physics teacher (High School) since 1991.
¨ He was member of the
scientific Board of Direction of the conferences “Incontri con la Matematica”
n. 10, 11 and 12, Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna, 1996, 1997 and 1998). He
gave lectures of Didactics of Mathematics and of History of the Mathematics in
several national meetings and in the following international study conferences:
·
GIRP-20,
1991 (Locarno, Switzerland);
·
II Italian-Greek Meeting on Didactics of
Mathematics, 1997 (Italian Institute-Aristotle University, Thessaloniki,
Greece);
·
ICMI
Study, 1998 (Luminy, Marseille, France);
·
CERME-1,
1998 (Osnabrück, Germany);
·
MCOTS-2,
1999 (Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA);
·
International Conference on Mathematics
Education into the XXI Century, 1999 (Cairo, Egypt);
·
MED-CONF, 2000 (Nicosia, Cyprus);
·
Erasmus Meeting on Didactics of Mathematics,
2000 (Nicosia, Cyprus);
·
Jordan
Conference, 2000 (Amman);
·
First
International GIREP Seminar, 2001 (Udine);
·
SFIDA-18,
Séminaire
Franco-Italien de Didactique de l'Algèbre, 2002 (Torino).
Photo-gallery
1996-2002: è Photo-gallery
1996-2002.htm ç
Download papers
(Didactics of Mathematics):
è Learning, problem solving and use of representative
registers in Italian High School.htm ç (2000)
è Simple rules and general rules in some High School
students' mistakes.htm ç (2000)
è The influence of text's mental images upon problems'
resolutions.htm ç (2000)
è Some 'impossible' problems in High School students'
behaviour.htm ç (2001)
Download papers
(History for Didactics of Mathematics):
è Prime numbers and quadratic polynomials.htm ç (1995)
è Le figure simili nella Geometria degli Indivisibili.htm ç (1999, in Italian)
è Le serie numeriche dalla storia alla didattica della
Matematica.htm ç (1999, in Italian)
è Matematica e Bellezza.htm ç (2000, in Italian)
è Algoritmi aritmetici elementari dalla storia alla didattica
della Matematica.htm ç (2001, in Italian)
è Comunicazione
Loano 2002.htm ç “Storia
delle Scienze per la Didattica” (2002, in Italian)
Download papers
“Appunti di didattica della matematica” (in Italian):
è Appunti di didattica della matematica.htm ç
Some books by
Giorgio T. Bagni (in Italian):
è Storia
della Matematica, vol. I.htm
ç (1996)
è Storia
della Matematica, vol. II.htm
ç (1996)
è Elementi di storia della Logica formale.htm ç (1997, preface by F. Speranza)
è Matematica.htm ç (1999)
è Matematici.htm ç (2000)
Giorgio
T. Bagni - Publications (a) Didactics of Mathematics (2 books; 57 papers) (b) History of Mathematics (3 books; 9 papers) (c) History and Didactics of
Mathematics
(5 books; 48 papers) (d) Other works (9 books; 21 papers) Publications list: è Publications.htm ç |
Links:
American Mathematical Society è http://e-math.ams.org/ ç
Association for
Symbolic Logic è http://www.aslonline.org/ ç
“Archimede” -
Rivista è http://www.lemonnier.it/Riviste/rivista.php?id=2 ç
Centro
Internazionale Matematico Estivo è http://www.math.unifi.it/~cime/ ç
Cofin - Cineca
- Programmi di ricerca è http://cofin.cineca.it/ ç
Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche è http://www.cnr.it/ ç
European Mathematical
Information Service è http://www.emis.de/ ç
European
Society for Research in Mathematics Education è http://www.erme.uni-osnabrueck.de/ ç
Galileo Project Resources è http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/galileo_resources.html ç
History of Mathematics è http://aleph0.clarku.edu/%7Edjoyce/mathhist/mathhist.html ç
International Mathematical Union è http://elib.zib.de/IMU/ ç
Istituto
Nazionale di Alta Matematica “F. Severi” è http://indam1.mat.uniroma1.it/ ç
“La Matematica
e la sua Didattica” - Rivista è http://www.pitagoragroup.it/periodici.html ç
MacTutor
History of Mathematics Archive è http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/ ç
Mathematical Association of America è http://www.maa.org/ ç
“Mathesis” è http://www.unict.it/mathesis/sezioni_mathesis.htm ç
Ministero
Istruzione, Università, Ricerca è http://www.miur.it/ ç
“Progetto
Alice” - Rivista è http://www.pagine.net/infoprogetto1.asp ç
Scuola
Matematica Interuniversitaria è http://www.iaga.fi.cnr.it/smi/index.html ç
Unione Matematica
Italiana è http://www.dm.unibo.it/umi/index.html ç
Zentralblatt
Didaktik der Mathematik è http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/fiz/publications/zdm/zdmp1.html ç
Montucla, J.E. (1758), Histoire des Mathematiques, I, II,
Jombert, Paris
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History
and Epistemology for Mathematics Education
(Giorgio T.
Bagni, Editor)
Last update: 2002, november 16th